Anyone feel nostalgia?

If you didn't already know (which would be surprising) this is the third generation of the Digimon franchise.

This installment in the franchise first aired April 1st of 2001 and ended March 2002.

The story of Tamers is similar to Digimon 02 by starting out with three main characters and remaining in the real world at first.

What Tamers does that was different was that it was marketing the card game as well. The major element of the installment was that they had to use cards to boost their digimon's abilities or force digivolution.

I had watched the show in Japanese subs so every time they swiped a card it seemed so dramatic!

SOU SHINKO PLUG-IN S!!!!!

The characters themselves are forgettable but the Digimon are timeless on the internet. The ever popular Renamon appeared in this installation.

The main character, Takato has a personality that goes all over the place. At one moment he seems like a strong willed ten year old and the next he is on the ground whining enough to make Rarity cringe.

Out of all of the main characters the only one who seemed level headed nearly the whole time was Lee.

When I re-watched the series I took notice of the significance of the Devas. The Devas are the antagonists of the show and are a beastly representation of the Chinese zodiac.

The show's developers assumed that the viewer would have knowledge about the zodiac and wasn't completely focused on the red dinosaur on the screen.

Back to Takato, he was embarrassing to watch a lot of the time. In a good amount of scenes, we see him grunting, screaming and flailing trying to encourage someone or something.

It is apparently difficult to encourage anything with being on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Overall the story and characters were fine. The story had a good balance of joy, sorrow, comedy, and cartoony action that any kid could hope for.

I give the show a 7.5/10 but you might only enjoy it if you have already seen it once before.

Edit: I was out nerded. Read top comment to get a more accurate review on the points I screwed up.